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Hi and welcome to the forum Boog33, the parts list that you have provided can certainly play Minecraft and Valve games at medium or high settings although is there a specific budget you're working with here?

Hi and welcome to the forum Boog33, the parts list that you have provided can certainly play Minecraft and Valve games at medium or high settings although is there a specific budget you're working with here?

Yeah, $550 or less, but i would definately prefer to have something that could play those type of games at medium settings for as low of a price aspossible.

Should easily outperform your earlier build because of the superior integrated graphics. Considering MS plans to shift focus from Windows 7 I'd grab a copy of 8.1, but they basically cost the same so swap them if you're not willing to choose it. Did not get RAM in dual channel (superior option btw) because I'm assuming you plan to grab another 1x4 stick later, if that's not the case and you don't plan on upgrading anytime soon grab 2x2GB RAM. Get RAM running at 1866/2133 Mhz as the iGPU on the APUs can really make use of that, unlike most other processors.

Should easily outperform your earlier build because of the superior integrated graphics. Considering MS plans to shift focus from Windows 7 I'd grab a copy of 8.1, but they basically cost the same so swap them if you're not willing to choose it. Did not get RAM in dual channel (superior option btw) because I'm assuming you plan to grab another 1x4 stick later, if that's not the case and you don't plan on upgrading anytime soon grab 2x2GB RAM. Get RAM running at 1866/2133 Mhz as the iGPU on the APUs can really make use of that, unlike most other processors.

That build over at PCPartpicker is good, but I would aim for a different motherboard. That board is low cost, but sacrifices SATA 6 and USB 3.0. SATA 6 is good if you plan to upgrade to an SSD at a later date. For a little more, the GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X has SATA 6 and USB 3.0 due to the higher-end chipset. A slightly less expensive motherboard is the GIGABYTE GA-F2A78M-HD2 FM2+ AMD A78 which also has USB 3.0 and SATA 6 without some of the PCI-Express performance the A88 chipset has, which explains the price difference.